I don't really need to partner with others but I am a teacher at heart and I really enjoy helping others become successful and reaching their goals (thus my daytime career as a child and family therapist). 

With those we were re-energized with a sense of purpose.

I got into investing in real estate is because I wanted to be a great therapist and in order to be a great therapist I needed to do trainings that cost a lot of money.

I don’t mean to go too far off on a tangent, but here it goes...My profession is a child and family therapist.

I'm a commercial mortgage broker but I am a qualified Speech and Language Therapist!

The second applicant was a self employed massage therapist who only received personal checks when she worked, claimed to pay her rent in cash (no paper trail), and had a current landlord that never returned my calls.

Lauren Van Riper Before I got into real estate, I was a therapist.

Take a look at Josh Kaufman's video at TED it is under 20 minutes long and you will certainly become energized to figure this stuff out. 

I know there are intelligent arguments on both sides of this issue and that it depends on the details of our situation.So here is our situation:We both are therapists in private practice with incomes approximately between 60 and 70k per year at this point.

I am a therapist and I live off of my counseling practice income, not my real estate income.